Method and system for payment transactions and shipment tracking over the internet

a payment transaction and internet technology, applied in the field of computer-implemented financial transactions, to achieve the effect of reducing the risk of fraud by the seller

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-09-22
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[0011]For a fee, the intermediary collects the payment from the buyer and pays the seller. One advantage of a consumer-to-consumer payment process operated by an intermediary is that the risk of fraud by the seller is reduced because the buyer need not provide information about his payment instrument to the seller. Rather, the intermediary maintains information about the buyer's payment instrument in secret. Similarly, the intermediary need not provide the seller with a general authorization to charge a paymen...

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Similarly, the intermediary need not provide the seller with a general authorization to charge a payment...

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[0043]The present invention is typically embodied in a computer-implemented service that enables two individual consumers to complete a transaction that includes payment from one consumer (the payor, or buyer) to another consumer (the payee, or seller). An intermediary typically operates the service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. The payor has the convenience of paying through a variety of different payment instruments. Likewise, the payee has the convenience of receiving payment through a variety of different disbursement instruments.

[0044]Optionally, the intermediary may hold the payment from the payor in escrow until some predetermined condition is fulfilled. Once that predetermined condition is fulfilled, the intermediary pays the payee. If, for example, the transaction between the buyer and seller is for the sale of goods, the intermediary may hold the payment in escrow until the seller has delivered acceptable goods to the buyer. While holding the mone...

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Abstract

A method for completing a transaction in response to a determination that goods have been acceptably delivered to a buyer. The method is particularly suitable for use in an online commerce system including a transaction computer operated by a transaction facilitator and a pre-authorized shipping service. After a transaction is initiated, payment instrument selection information is displayed to the buyer, who selects a payment instrument. Authorization for the payment instrument is obtained from a payment instrument processor. Instructions are communicated to the seller to ship the goods using the shipping service. Transaction information including a tracking number associated with the shipment of the goods is stored. A tracking database of the shipping service is queried to determine whether the goods have been delivered. If the goods have been delivered to and accepted by the buyer, an instruction is communicated to the payment instrument processor to make payment to the seller.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The invention relates generally to computer-implemented financial transactions, and more particularly, relates to completing a transaction between two individual consumers by transferring money from one consumer to the other according to transaction instructions received online from the consumers.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The Internet has become a popular place to conduct business. Through Web auction sites, Web sites for displaying classified ads, Web shopping malls, online chat rooms, and other online transaction facilitation sites, two consumers may agree to a transaction. Frequently, such transactions involve the exchange of goods or services for money. While consumers frequently find that agreeing to transactions on the Internet is easy, completing a payment to consummate the transaction is more difficult.[0003]Typically, two consumers who have agreed through the Internet to exchange goods for money resort to offline methods to perform the exc...

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IPC IPC(8): G06Q40/00G06F15/16H04K1/00G06Q30/00
CPCG06Q20/085G06Q20/0855G06Q30/06G06Q20/102G06Q30/00G06Q20/10
Inventor TSUEI, HENRY T.GERMAN, DAN A.
Owner FIRST DATA
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